Sunday, 14 August 2011

14th August, 2011. Beachy Head. Overcast becoming sunny & warm.SW 0-1

We met up with RJF & JK at Birling and covered virtually all the usual sites on the Headland including walking the rough field, we also saw GG, RK & RKH.

RDME was ringing in Whitbread Hollow. As he was there on his own he had only set less than half the normal number of mist-nets which would normally be set. Even so he was very busy, and if he had set the usual number of mist-nets, he considers that he may very well have caught 300+ birds and therefore his numbers are very conservative with Whitethroat, Willow Warblers and Reed Warbler numbers would have been considerably higher.

The following are our combined numbers with ringing totals in brackets: